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Elias Perkins (April 5, 1767 – September 27, 1845) was a United States representative from Connecticut. He was born in Lisbon, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1786. Afterwards, he studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New London, Connecticut.
Thomas Clap Perkins (July 29, 1798 – October 11, 1870) was an American lawyer and politician.. Perkins was born in Hartford, Connecticut., July 29, 1798.His father was Enoch Perkins of Hartford, and his mother, Anna Pitkin, was a daughter of Rev. Timothy Pitkin, of Farmington, Connecticut.
Arthur Perkins (1864–1932) was an American lawyer and judge from Hartford, Connecticut who, during his retirement, spearheaded the effort to make Benton MacKaye's vision of the Appalachian Trail (a proposed 2,000-mile contiguous footpath to run through fourteen states) a reality.
Seth Perkins Staples (Aug. 31, 1776- Nov. 6, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician. He founded what became the New Haven Law School, which was absorbed by Yale University as their Yale Law School. He was the brother-in-law of Roger Sherman Jr. He was the son of Rev. John and Susanna (Perkins) Staples, and was born in Canterbury, Connecticut.
(New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson, 1893), Cases on Railroad Law (1896), Modern Political Institutions (1898), American Railroad Law (1904), The American Judiciary (1905), The Relations of Education to Citizenship (1912), Life and Letters of Simeon Baldwin (1919), The Young Man and the Law (1919). He was a most prolific writer of articles and ...
Perkins was born on September 20, 1884, in New York City, to Elizabeth (Evarts) Perkins, a daughter of William M. Evarts, and Edward Clifford Perkins, a lawyer. [1] He grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and then graduated from Harvard College in 1907.
In 1848, he worked in his father’s law office, and by 1851 Perkins was admitted to the Connecticut Bar. In 1852, Perkins graduated as a librarian from Connecticut Normal School, [3] now Central Connecticut State University, and became a teacher for a short time in Greenwich, Connecticut. [4]
Emily was also an aunt to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Frederic Beecher Perkins and US Representative Timothy Pitkin; an aunt-by-marriage to author Edward Everett Hale, the mother of Connecticut Governor and Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin; daughter-in-law to US Representative and Judge Simeon Baldwin; mother-in-law to Massachusetts Chief Justice Dwight Foster; grandmother of New York Supreme ...